Students in section 103 of ENGL 2720 -- Introduction to Literature; Drama -- were asked for Friday, September 3 to post examples of common or well-known YouTube performance memes. Below, for each example, you'll find both the original video and at least one later re-enactment of it.
Charlie Bit Me
Ryan Jerving
AMATEUR SOURCE / COMIC RE-ENACTMENT
Original: Charlie Bit My Finger - Again !
Re-enactment: Charlie bit me 50yrs later
I Like Turtles
Charles Mark, Deangelo Ross, Michael Berdelle, and Meghan Wleklinski
PROFESSIONAL SOURCE / ACCURATE RE-MAKE
Original: Zombie Kid Likes Turtles
Re-make: ZOMBIE KID LIKES TURTLES- Rage Mountain
Leave Britney Alone!
Libby Pinkham, Katie Stahlmann, Michael Belknap, Rob Matuszewski
Original: "Sweet Child O' Mine" (from movie Step Brothers)
Re-enactment: Sweet Child O' Mine (edbobman)
My New Haircut
Group 7: Rebecca Jakubovsky (and who else?)
INTENTIONALLY COMIC SOURCE / SINCERE(?) RE-MAKES
Original: Brett Tietjen, My New Haircut
Re-enactment: My New Haircut - Senior Citizen Edition
Re-enactment: My New Haircut - Asian Edition
Yu-Gi-Oh
Group 11
The first link is a kid show from Japan Yu-gi-oh, based around a lose (hardly coherent plot) of ancient Egyptian artifacts/shadow monster fighting which has been reinvented into a popular card game (the rules of which are next to impossible to understand). The main character has a artifact that carries the soul of a Egyptian pharaoh which helps him to win said childrens card game. warning, it is a bit long; below is part one of two.
Now then, a British individual with far to much time on his hands, and a talent for throwing his voice, decides to create an (far more comical) abridged dubbed version of the show.
this is less than four minutes
This is the first 1/9 of the full movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Despite international copyright laws the movie in its entirety can be easily found. This shows that the general support of the general public to keep this in the free public domain. With the nature of the internet filing and video sharing is challenging copyright laws and in a sense the concept of artistic ownership.
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Charlie Bit Me
Ryan JervingAMATEUR SOURCE / COMIC RE-ENACTMENT
Original: Charlie Bit My Finger - Again !
Re-enactment: Charlie bit me 50yrs later
I Like Turtles
Charles Mark, Deangelo Ross, Michael Berdelle, and Meghan WleklinskiPROFESSIONAL SOURCE / ACCURATE RE-MAKE
Original: Zombie Kid Likes Turtles
Re-make: ZOMBIE KID LIKES TURTLES- Rage Mountain
Leave Britney Alone!
Libby Pinkham, Katie Stahlmann, Michael Belknap, Rob MatuszewskiAMATEUR SOURCE
Step Brothers: Sweet Child O'Mine
(group 1 names?)PROFESSIONAL, INTENTIONALLY COMIC SOURCE / SINCERE RE-ENACTMENT
Original: "Sweet Child O' Mine" (from movie Step Brothers)
Re-enactment: Sweet Child O' Mine (edbobman)
My New Haircut
Group 7: Rebecca Jakubovsky (and who else?)INTENTIONALLY COMIC SOURCE / SINCERE(?) RE-MAKES
Original: Brett Tietjen, My New Haircut
Re-enactment: My New Haircut - Senior Citizen Edition
Re-enactment: My New Haircut - Asian Edition
Yu-Gi-Oh
Group 11The first link is a kid show from Japan Yu-gi-oh, based around a lose (hardly coherent plot) of ancient Egyptian artifacts/shadow monster fighting which has been reinvented into a popular card game (the rules of which are next to impossible to understand). The main character has a artifact that carries the soul of a Egyptian pharaoh which helps him to win said childrens card game. warning, it is a bit long; below is part one of two.
part of the original first episode
Now then, a British individual with far to much time on his hands, and a talent for throwing his voice, decides to create an (far more comical) abridged dubbed version of the show.
this is less than four minutes
The abridged version
Group 96
This is the first 1/9 of the full movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Despite international copyright laws the movie in its entirety can be easily found. This shows that the general support of the general public to keep this in the free public domain. With the nature of the internet filing and video sharing is challenging copyright laws and in a sense the concept of artistic ownership.
The bunny scene